JUVENILE


Meaning of JUVENILE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

juvenile delinquent

juvenile/youth crime (= committed by children and teenagers )

Police blame gangs for a third of all juvenile crime in the city.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

court

But because of her age and because it was a first offence, she wasn't sent to a juvenile court .

Starr said a juvenile court would try to work to help the children rather than punish them.

The 1969 Children and Young Persons Act retained the juvenile court system but reduced the effective powers of the juvenile magistrates.

The Pikes appealed to a juvenile court judge, who ruled in their favor.

She went on to become chairman of Guildford juvenile court magistrates.

It also houses juvenile court offices and the Grand Forks County health and social services agencies.

The first appearance a child would make after being charged would be before a youth court , formerly called a juvenile court.

The teenagers, all of whom are incarcerated at Alameda County juvenile hall, will undergo closed juvenile court proceedings.

crime

They respect their parents and believe lack of discipline can lead to juvenile crime .

Governor Bush has made his mark building prisons, toughening laws on juvenile crime and calling for lower property taxes.

Was there ever any evidence that juvenile crime rates were significantly different in these countries?

No community untouched Each North County community has its own set of juvenile crime problems.

Mr Clarke also stressed the role of schools in combating juvenile crime and demanded more effective treatment of disruptive pupils.

Vowing a crackdown on juvenile crime , California Gov.

I emphasise that juvenile crime is not the same as adult crime.

By comparison, Sanders said juvenile crime has been up significantly in many other big cities.

criminal

President Clinton promptly announced a law to crack down on juvenile criminals and a new computer database to track gang activity.

But we do like the concept of putting juvenile criminals to work cleaning up the ballpark.

delinquency

It is these ideas that lead to what is seen as juvenile delinquency .

We could always relate to the juvenile delinquency thing.

Her husband was having a heated argument with a short fat woman about television as an inducement to juvenile delinquency .

Steps were taken to improve prisons and insane asylums and to check juvenile delinquency .

But there is nothing new in juvenile delinquency .

No one would assume that it referred to health, education or the battle against juvenile delinquency or even violent crime.

Secondly, Rutter evidently holds that any behavioural effects of lead are irrelevant to social phenomena, eg juvenile delinquency .

In Chapter 7 I discuss the romanticising of male urban juvenile delinquency by modern sociologists, but they are not alone.

delinquent

They could become a den for juvenile delinquents .

He later worked with juvenile delinquents in a Florida youth services program.

It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing.

He didn't want to be a juvenile delinquent .

The other people were a mixture of juvenile delinquents and retarded middle aged criminals.

This week's focus is on juvenile delinquents .

hall

A few weeks after the incident, the girl was arrested and sent to juvenile hall .

The three were in custody in juvenile hall in Martinez and will probably appear in court Thursday or Friday.

justice

This then linked the juvenile justice system with the overall provision of social work.

He has signed into law several of his top agenda items, including a tougher juvenile justice code.

Allowing that possibility has always been the chief point of the juvenile justice system.

Jim Leach are mentoring youths in the juvenile justice system.

He said Bush appealed to women voters in 1994 by focusing on education, welfare reform and juvenile justice .

Michigan was another state that rewrote its juvenile justice policies in the 1990s.

labour

In the nineteenth century there was a need to protect children from exploitation by parents as juvenile labour .

In this respect they are the forerunners of the juvenile labour exchanges with their affiliated services of vocational guidance and after-care.

It covered predominantly skilled and organized workers while the casual labour problem and that of juvenile labour was untouched.

liaison

Two policemen are responsible for community relations and two policewomen for juvenile liaison , one each of whom is a sergeant.

offender

There are short rehabilitation periods for juvenile offenders and persons subject to court orders or disqualifications.

Massachusetts closed its traditional, prison-like juvenile corrections institutions and moved its juvenile offenders into small, community-based group homes.

In Leicester youth court, the influx of 17-year-olds has doubled the number of juvenile offenders coming before magistrates.

Probation officers and those who treat juvenile offenders within the community say violence is an ongoing problem in the three lockups.

The execution of juvenile offenders is extremely rare and at least 72 countries set 18 as the minimum age for the death penalty.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Juvenile crime is an increasing problem in big cities.

a juvenile desire to shock people

Many juvenile offenders were being put in adult prisons.

O'Brien, 15, will face murder charges in juvenile court.

Some of the boys tried to involve me in their juvenile pranks, but I wasn't interested.

The public housing units have frequently become slums and hotbeds of crime, especially juvenile delinquency.

You wouldn't think that college students could be so juvenile .

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